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On July 12, the Democratic National Convention convened in Philadelphia in the same arena where the Republicans had met a few weeks earlier. Spirits were low; the Republicans had taken control of both houses of the United States Congress and a majority of state governorships during the 1946 mid-term elections, and the public opinion polls showed Truman trailing Republican nominee Dewey ...
All forty-eight states were part of the 1948 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman won Oklahoma by a landslide 25.5 percentage points. [1]
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Presidential election; Partisan control: Democratic hold: Popular vote margin: Democratic +4.5%: Electoral vote: Harry S. Truman (D) 303: Thomas E. Dewey (R) 189: Strom Thurmond : 39: 1948 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Dewey, blue denotes states won by Truman, and orange denotes states won by Thurmond.
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1948. Democrat Harry Truman: 47.81%. Republican Thomas Dewey: 50.72%. This year marks the second time the majority of the county threw its votes behind Republican hopeful Thomas Dewey. Why is unknown.
However, in this election, Truman won the state, by 4.35%, or 4,407 votes. This was the last time a Democratic presidential candidate won the state until Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, as throughout the 50s, the state transformed into a Republican stronghold. Since 1964, no Democratic presidential candidate has been able to reach 40% of the vote. [2]